Combined lifting-jack and shaft-support.



O Witnesses R. G. MORGAN. COMBINED LIPTING JACK AND SHAFT SUPPORT.

APPLICATIOK FILED APR. 29, 1905.

, 'PATENTED MARLZV, 1906.

iilii ii iii I I Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

ROVENA e. MORGAN, or FORT WORTH, TEXAS. COMBINED LIFTING-JACK'AND SHAFT-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 27, 1906.

Application filed Ap i 29, 1905. Serial No. 258,083.

\ 1'0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, RovENA G. MORGAN, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Combined Lifting -Jack and Shaft Support, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to combined liftingjacks and thill-supports for vehicles, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character.

I of carrying the same into practical operation,

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is 'better understood, the same consists in cer-' tain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capable it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage' of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device applied as a lifting-jack, and Fig. 2 is a sectional detail, on a reduced scale, showing the -device applied as a thill or tongue support.

The improved device comprises a standard 10, having a lateral hook11 attached thereto near one end and with a lever member 12 pivoted, as at 13, thereto and near one end of the lever, the shorter end of the lever, having a notched step 14 for bearing beneath a vehicle-axle (indicated at 15) and the longer end curving downwardly and terminating in a handle 16.

" Rigidly attached, as by bolts 17, to the neath the axle with the handle portion 16 in elevated position and then depress the latter until it snaps over the catch 19. To release the lever, the inclined end 20 of the resilient member is moved laterally a short distance, as will be obvious.

The hook 11 is designed for resting over the upper bar of the forward spring, as at 22 in Fig. 2, with the upper end of the standard in the rear of the cross-bar 23 of the thills or the corresponding member of a tongue when the latter is elevated, and thus support the same in its elevated or inoperativeposition.

By this simple arrangement a very convenient, simple, and inexpensive device is produced which may be employed effectuallyeither as a jack to hold the axle and the body portion supported thereby while the journals are being lubricated and also as a 'thill or tongue support to maintairithe same in elevated position when not in use, as above 'described.

While the-hook 11 is primarily intended to hook over portions of the running-gear of a vehicle and hold the thill, it is obvious that it may be used'to hold the jack in operative position while the lever 12 is being manipulated to raise the load 15 and to prevent the jack from wabbling or tipping over while the lever is retained by the catch 20.

' The standard member will generally be of wood and the remaining parts of metal, and the interior of the hook 11 and the other parts which are liable to come in contact with or other similar suitable material.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- A device of the class described, comprising 'a standard, a lever member pivoted near one my own I have hereto. aflixed my signature I05 in the presence of two witnesses.

ROVENA G. MORGAN.

Witnesses:

J. L. -CARTE J. T. Fox. I 

